Word: putnam
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Scientists from M.I.T., Caltech, Stanford, Harvard, the U.S. Weather Bureau took part in the research and design, but the idea man behind the windmill is Palmer Cosslet Putnam, onetime geologist in the Belgian Congo, flyer for Britain in World War I, president (1931) of G. P. Putnam's Sons, Manhattan publishers. "So far as we know," ventures Inventor Putnam, "this is the first attempt to generate alternating current by means of the wind for interconnection with a distribution system."* Engineers are sure that wind-generated electricity will be no costlier than water-generated, may possibly prove cheaper...
...RECONSTRUCTION OF EUROPE-Guglielmo Ferrero-Putnam...
...CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION-Hermann Rauschnmg-Putnam...
BRITISH LABOUR'S RISE TO POWER- Carl F. Brand- Stanford ($3.50). BEVIN AND Co.-Patricia Strauss-Putnam...
...David A. Goldthwait 68 Willard Nicholl 68 Chester W. Jenks 58 John Richardson, Jr. 57 Dana Reed 53 John E. Sawhill 51 Andrew E. Rice 49 Bruce Barton, Jr. 46 John M. Bullitt 46 Donald E. McNichol 16 David E. Place 44 Gordon W. Lyle 41 George E. Putnam, Jr. 38 George R. Clay 35 John R. Abbot, Jr. 31 John C. Bullard 29 Henry R. Heyburn 28 Paul C. Sheeline 25 John H. Page 18 Charles S. Putnam 17 *Elected Total Junior Votes Cast 462 Total Sophomore Votes Cast...